The title says it all. Part of what i do now is to convince people to care about their privacy. I know I cannot force people to do anything. And I have a charisma level of -1, if this was an rpg. Like its nonnexistent.

I feel lonely in general because it feels like people make me feel like I’m delusional for caring about protecting my privacy. Maybe there is a support group for that🤣🤣🤣

But anything I can specifically say that works best in planting a seed in people’s mind?

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    12 days ago

    I think if you just publicly practise decent privacy, people will be more inclined to do the same. e.g. all my friends know I’m not on WhatsApp and don’t use proprietary software in general. They know to talk to me on other platforms, and the fact that I’m like this means that others will likely feel more able to do the same if they are inclined. Nobody ever told me to care about privacy; I have always thought it was creepy if others can see all my personal business. I can’t imagine that that’s such a rare innate mindset to have, so other people who feel the same way should feel more able to put that into practice if they see you doing so. If they really want to broadcast all their personal data to the state and tech companies then they are within their right to, and I don’t see the point in trying to convince them to not do what they want to do.

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      12 days ago

      Well, I’m forced to use Snapchat and discord by some dildos at school, who are to lazy to remember my phone number.

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        11 days ago

        I finally deleted snapchat the other day! It was hard and bf wahted to keep our 530 day snap streak.

        Discord i havent been able to get rid of yet, because im part of so many group. But slowly im finding groups on signal and matrix that suit my needs. Its a work in progress!

        Take your time❤️

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          10 days ago

          Yep and Discord is just a pain. It’s laggy as hell on my Redmi 4x and I have to use Aliucord for decent performance. How did you even start using signal? Is it popular where you live? I don’t have any friends or family members using it.

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            10 days ago

            Alot of people are using it! I guess ive beem invited to so many groups🙌🙌 its definitely good for privacy.

            Yeah discord has been laggy 😭 maybe its all the data they have stolen🤣🤣🤣

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            9 days ago

            I don’t know what info is so critical that you can’t miss it but also can only possibly get it on Snapchat or Discord. If you use it to talk to other students you could get them to talk to you on another platform, otherwise it doesn’t really sound like they’re worth talking to, but you do you.

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                8 days ago

                You don’t have any way to find out about these things outside of Discord and Snapchat from your classmates??? How do your classmates find out then? It’s not going to spontaneously generate into a Discord server. There has to be an official channel where people find out about these things.

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      11 days ago

      Righttt, its so creepy esp the ad targeting.

      Yeppp i always can be found on signal.

      Yeah i should focus on myself and let the rest come thru. Thanks so much❤️